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Snow Leopard release date announced

iTunes coverflow view is much much smoother and snappier.

Used to chug a bit with all my album covers - at least until it seemed to have gone through them and cached them up.

Now it is butter.
 
Ta for the info... What machine are you running it on...? I'm probably going to wait until the final release to install it. Which might be very soon... :D
 
Hm - interesting:

When I try to access Growl or Fan control from the preferences pane, I get the message "Preference Pain needs to re-open to view this" and then it restarts the pane with (32 bit) in the window header before opening the app preference...
 
My Viscosity VPN client doesn't work properly under SL...Tunnelblick is fine though, so will have to use that for now.
 
This is interesting:
Snow Leopard packing antivirus software?

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If the online chatter is to be believed, Apple's very soon to be released Snow Leopard has in its code new protection for fighting malware. According to the picture above corroborated by other online reports, a DMG downloaded by Safari was checked by the OS and found to contain the "RSPlug.A" Trojan. The system promptly suggests you eject the disk image to avoid damage. Should Apple really be treading down this path, it begs the question of how often and how comprehensive / aggressive the company will be updating its antivirus logs. If nothing else, it's a certainly a notable symbolic gesture that the one-time underdog might be gaining enough market share to catch the attention of the darker side of the internet -- and all of a sudden, David Puddy isn't looking nearly as bad.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/snow-leopard-packing-antivirus-software/
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Wow, they actually managed to find a Mac Trojan in the wild...? :D

How many times will they be updating it... Probably every year or so... Adding a line to their three line definitions file :D

Good to see Engadget can't tell the difference between a virus, malware, or trojans. Muppets...! I love the way this is spun as negative. :D

(Cue pointless Mac, viruses and Windows, with a dash of Linux, debate...)

Full list of enhancements : http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html
 
jæd said:
Wow, they actually managed to find a Mac Trojan in the wild...? :D

How many times will they be updating it... Probably every year or so... Adding a line to their three line definitions file :D

Good to see Engadget can't tell the difference between a virus, malware, or trojans. Muppets...! I love the way this is spun as negative. :D

(Cue pointless Mac, viruses and Windows, with a dash of Linux, debate...)
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but not surprised? ;)
 
jæd said:
How many times will they be updating it... Probably every year or so... Adding a line to their three line definitions file :D
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Heh. Looks like that was over estimating things. There's only two lines in the definition file.

At the time of this writing, the file contains only two definitions: the OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse first discovered in 2007 and the OSX.iService malware embedded in the pirated iWork installer mentioned above. However, Apple told Macworld that the list of definitions can be updated via Software Update.
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=27012

Anyhow, I just a notification that my copy has shipped. :D
 
jæd said:
Anyhow, I just a notification that my copy has shipped. :D
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Me too.
Looks like Amazon.co.uk blew it this time by stating pre-orders would ship on 4th Sept when the Apple Store are shipping on or before 28th Aug.
 
Mine was shipped yesterday but is coming from Holland. (Hoping it arrives tomorrow).
 
So far its very good... Itsa bit weird since its mostly the same, but feels better... Upgrade was a breeze and so far the only things don't seem to work are my custom compiled do-dadads... :D
 
seeing as I'll be away from my mac for 3 months from october, I don't think I'll bother with this till I get back. Let them get a .1 release out.

Now we've got an SLR, photos are taking up much more space, and we'll come back from holiday with thousands of the fuckers, so I'll need a bigger HD. Good excuse to do a clean install :)
 
got mine from Regent Street this morning - took about 2 minutes - in addition this week's genius lecture was on how to install SL.
 
Managed to qualify for the cheap £7.95 copy :D been shipped, should receive early next week.
A whole OS for eight quid, couldn't say no even though various private torrent sites have got what purports to be the 'Gold Master' for the past few weeks, good to have an original DVD copy of it.
 
The gamma difference is very noticeable, the pale wishy-washy 1.8 is replaced by 2.2 which makes the display look more like a PC.

The machine seems to be running a lot faster too.

Snow Leopard is good, and only took an hour to install. :)
 
Its well nippy.

What a pleasant joy it is to install modern operating systems onto a 2 year old laptop and have it feel like a new machine, faster not slower.

2009 = A very good year for operating systems.
 
I can't actually tell much difference on my two year old iMac.

If someone else had installed it without telling me, I'd probably never notice.
 
Well its possible I am noticing more because maybe my old Leopard install was clogged up with years of stuff, and I did a nice fresh install of Snow Leopard.

But at a minimum I would expect finder to be noticably quicker, mostly because the old finder was so slow.
 
maldwyn said:
It was worth £25 just to get the date in the menu bar.
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Well worth queuing up for! :D

Some related links:
Guardian: Snow Leopard: hints, hassles and review roundup from around the web
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/aug/29/snow-leopard-apple-reviews-roundup
Zdnet: What's new: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39732284,00.htm
The Register: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/25/preview_os_apple_snow_leopard/

Interestingly, Apple slammed The Register with a take down notice for their (generally very positive) review. They told 'em to shove it. Way to go, Brits! Fight the power etc etc. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/27/apple_reg_take_down/

On Tuesday evening UK time The Register received a take-down notice from San Francisco lawyers acting on behalf of Apple. Our hosting company, Rackspace, received a similar notice, Apple's beef being that The Register had posted "confidential trade secrets" in our First Look at Snow Leopard......

But as we say, we don't think we're going to hear from them again this time, in which case the whole thing's junk, just another instance of Apple firing off legal threats for reasons of control-freakery. Apple gets to decide who gets what product, when, and when they get to write about it. Meanwhile we're all perfectly entitled to go into a crazed feeding frenzy in the run-up to every single product launch, or not-a-launch, just so long as we don't disturb the carefully choreographed media schedule.

Well screw that. We at The Register are perfectly happy to sign and to comply with NDAs, but we've never had that opportunity with Apple, because as far as we're aware we're consigned to some strange Jobsian hell because of some pronunciation gag. And frankly, even if at some point in the future Apple made an effort to try to like us and co-opt us to its marketing machine, we're not sure there's a spoon long enough for that to be sensible for us.

And if Apple itself isn't going to bother taking its own legals seriously, we're damned if we're prepared to do so. So next time they might as well mean it, or just not bother.
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Apple firing off legal threats for reasons of control-freakery. Apple gets to decide who gets what product, when,....
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That's a laugh and a half seeing as how the gold master was easily available via newsgroups or torrent (and not difficult to find) about a week and a half before the official release date.
 
editor said:
Well worth queuing up for! :D

Some related links:
Guardian: Snow Leopard: hints, hassles and review roundup from around the web
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/aug/29/snow-leopard-apple-reviews-roundup
Zdnet: What's new: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39732284,00.htm
The Register: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/25/preview_os_apple_snow_leopard/

Interestingly, Apple slammed The Register with a take down notice for their (generally very positive) review. They told 'em to shove it. Way to go, Brits! Fight the power etc etc. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/27/apple_reg_take_down/
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Apple control freakery < Whiny Apple control freakery complainers.

Developers would (or should) of been the only ones with access to SL before launch, and they are subject to an NDA.
 
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